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On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery and thus were free under U.S. law.
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, New York to Paris, crashed off the Long Island coast, killing all 230 people aboard the Boeing 747.
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On This Day: Discovery makes final landing On March 9, 2011, after 39 flights over 27 years of service, the space shuttle Discovery made its final landing at Kennedy Space Center. By (0) NASA's space shuttle Discovery approaches Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility for an on-time landing at 11:57 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011. File Photo by Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell/UPI | License Photo On March 9, 1945, more than 300 American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo with incendiary bombs, killing about 100,000 people and destroying an estimated 250,000 buildings over 16 square mi...